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Overview of the events of 1682 in science
List of years in science
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1682 in science
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1683
Fields
Archaeology
Technology
Sustainable energy research
Transportation technology
Social sciences
Psychology
Governance and policy studies
Paleontology
Dinosaurs' extinction
Extraterrestrial environment
Terrestrial environment
Tornado research
Other/related
Literature
Timeline of cosmological theories
List of open letters by academics
History of technology by type
List of science timelines
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The year
1682 in
science
and
technology
involved some significant events.
Astronomy
A
comet
is observed, which later becomes known as
Comet Halley
, after
Edmund Halley
successfully predicts its return in
1758
.
Discoveries
Antony Van Leeuwenhoek
discovers the banded pattern of muscle fibers.
Botany
John Ray
publishes his
Methodus plantarum nova
, which sets out his system to divide flowering plants into
monocotyledons
and
dicotyledons
.
Exploration
René Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle
canoes down the
Mississippi River
, naming the Mississippi basin
Louisiana
in honour of Louis XIV.
Medicine
English
naval surgeon
James Yonge (1646–1721) publishes
Wounds of the Brain Proved Curable
, probably the first monograph in
English
on
surgery
of the head.
Births
February 4 –
Johann Friedrich Böttger
,
German
alchemist
and developer of
porcelain
manufacture (died
1719
)
February 25 –
Giovanni Battista Morgagni
,
Italian
anatomist
(died
1771
)
March 24 –
Mark Catesby
, English
naturalist
(died
1749
)
April 16 –
John Hadley
, English mathematician (died
1744
)
July 10 –
Roger Cotes
, English
mathematician
(died
1716
)
Deaths
July 12 –
Jean Picard
,
French
astronomer
(born
1620
)
October –
J. J. Becher
,
German
physician
and
chemist
(born
1635
)
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